Posts Tagged ‘Gaia’

Lectionary Reflection: Fourth Sunday of Lent

Mar 18, 2009

Readings: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Thoughts for your consideration: by Fr. Stephen Dunn, CP Last Sunday’s Gospel re-lived Jesus’ surprising and prophetic act of “cleansing” the Temple which had been magnificently re-built by King Herod. Today’s reading from Chronicles takes us further back in the history of the Temple. Back when ... Read more

Passionist and Climate Change

Mar 12, 2009

It was Thomas Berry who first spoke of “The Passion of the Earth”.  Climate change is becoming the fiercest example of the suffering implied in that term.  Berry noted that the spirituality of the “memoria passionis” first expanded its range by seeing the sufferings of the poor and disenfranchised as sharing in the archetypal sufferings of ... Read more